Mar 14: 106 new COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths in Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 14: Karnataka on Monday registered 106 fresh coronavirus cases and four fatalities thereby taking the total till date to 39,43,912 and 40,022 respectively.
There were 337 patients who got discharged and the number of recoveries were 39,01,430 so far, said a bulletin.
Of the new cases, 61 were from Bengaluru Urban while there were 229 who got discharged from the city, the bulletin said.
The number of active cases across the State was 2,420.
While the positivity rate for the day was 0.45 per cent, the case fatality rate was 3.77 per cent.
The four deaths reported today were from Dakshina Kannada, Kalaburagi, Mandya and Vijayapura.
After Bengaluru urban, Mysuru recorded the highest number of cases with 11 followed by Shivamogga eight, Chitradurga six and the others.
Bengaluru Urban district now has 17,80,397 cases, Mysuru 2,29,416 and Tumakuru 1,59,815.
Cumulatively, 6,50,95,838 samples were tested of which 23,050 were examined today.
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Affront to non-Hindi speaking people: Chidambaram slams use of Hindi words in bills' names
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.
Chidambaram said the non-Hindi-speaking people cannot identify a Bill/Act with titles that are in Hindi words written in English letters, and they cannot pronounce them.
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"I am opposed to the increasing practice of the government using Hindi words written in English letters in the title of the Bills to be introduced in Parliament," the former Union minister said late Monday night.
Hitherto, the practice was to write the title of the Bill in English words in the English version and in Hindi words in the Hindi version of the Bill, Chidambaram said.
"When no one pointed out any difficulty in the 75 year practice, why should government make a change?" he said.
"This change is an affront to non-Hindi speaking people and to States that have an official language other than Hindi," the Congress leader said.
Successive governments have reiterated the promise that English will remain an Associate Official Language, Chidambaram said.
"I fear that promise is in danger of being broken," the Congress MP said.
